Michael Stolz (soccer player)

Michael pride
Personnel
birthday	October 19, 1966
place of birth	Halle (Saale) ,  GDR
size	172 cm
position	Midfield / defense
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1985	Hallescher FC Chemie
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1985-1988	FC Carl Zeiss Jena II	at least 48 (5)
1986-1990	FC Carl Zeiss Jena	61 (2)
1990-1992	SpVgg Fürth	35 (2)
1 Only league games are given.

Michael Stolz (born October 19, 1966 in Halle (Saale) ) is a former German football player. For FC Carl Zeiss Jena , he played in the GDR Oberliga , the top division of the East German Football Association .

Athletic career

Michael Stolz joined the Thuringian top club FC Carl Zeiss Jena from the youth department of Hallesches FC Chemie in early 1985 . After he had played in the junior team until the summer, he was accepted into the second team of the Zeiss townspeople for the 1985/86 season , which played in the second-rate GDR league . In his first year in the men's division, the 1.72 meter tall pride played 31 of the 34 second division games. Although he was nominated again for the second team for the 1986/87 season, he already made 16 point matches for the first team. Stolz made his debut in the league on November 12, 1986. In the match of the 10th match day between FC Carl Zeiss and FC Karl-Marx-Stadt (1: 1) he was called up by coach Lothar Kurbjuweit as a left defender. In the further course of the season Stolz had a regular place in the midfield of the league team. For the 1987/88 season he was officially registered for the first team of FC Carl Zeiss, but was only used regularly at the beginning and at the end of the season due to injury and so came to 17 game stakes. Stolz scored his first of two league goals in his career on the second day of the season with the opening goal in a 3-0 home win over FC Karl-Marx-Stadt.

On June 4, 1988, Stolz stood as a right midfielder in the final of the GDR soccer cup, losing 2-0 with the Jena team to FC Dynamo from Berlin in extra time. With participation in the final, the team qualified for the UEFA Cup, where Michael Stolz played 4 games, including a. against Sampdoria Genoa, the eventual winner of the competition. Stolz shot his second league goal again in the 1988/89 season in his own stadium against Wismut Aue with the 2-0 final score. This season, pride came with 20 appearances to most league games within one season, always remaining true to his role as a midfielder. In the 1989/90 season, after a knee injury, Stolz only played in the first half of the season for FC Carl Zeiss, and he played eight of the 13 matches. His last competitive game for the 1st team of Jena was the last game of the first half of the season. In the 4-0 defeat at Stahl Brandenburg on December 2, 1989, he was the central midfielder for the last time in the team before he left the professional squad because of a knee injury. For the first team, Stolz played 91 competitive games in which he scored five goals. These included 61 league games with two goals, twelve national cup games (two goals) and four European cup games, as well as numerous Inter-Toto games. In addition to his work as a licensed player at FC Carl Zeiss Jena, Stolz studied philosophy and literature at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena and completed his studies with a degree (Magister).

Professional career

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he settled in Fürth , Bavaria , to complete a journalism training course as a radio and TV editor. In addition to his training, he played from the beginning of 1991 for the national league team SpVgg Fürth , where he made eleven league matches and five cup appearances by the end of the season. At the end of the season he was promoted to the then third-class Bayernliga with SpVgg , in which Stolz played 24 out of 33 league games in 1991/92 and nine cup games in midfield and defense. In total, Stolz scored six goals in Fürth, two in point games and four in the cup.

From 1992 Stolz began to work as an editor for Radio Gong (Nuremberg) in the news and sports area. He then initially worked as a foreign correspondent in England for German media. In 1993 he started working in London as an editor for the global agency IMG and the international television magazine FIFA Futbol Mundial. As a television journalist, he has traveled to over 80 countries and reported for FIFA and UEFA on World and European Championships, as well as regularly on the UEFA Champions League. Michael Stolz has lived in Berlin since 2002, where, in addition to his work as an international television journalist, he was involved in youth football. a. for Hertha 03 Zehlendorf.

Since 2012 Michael Stolz has been producing image, event and advertising films for clients from the fields of business, education, tourism and sport with his production company MS Productions, which is based in the film and media city of Babelsberg , and supplies television stations with features and documentaries .

literature

• Andreas Baingo, Michael Horn: The History of the GDR Oberliga. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-89533-428-6 , page 322.
• Hanns Leske : Encyclopedia of GDR football . Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89533-556-3 , page 476.
• Uwe Nuttelmann (Ed.): GDR Oberliga. 1962-1991. Self-published, Jade 2007, ISBN 978-3-930814-33-6 .
• Hanns Leske : The GDR league players. A lexicon . AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2014, ISBN 978-3-89784-392-9 , page 510.

Web links

• Michael Stolz in the database of weltfussball.de
• Michael Stolz in the database of the German Football Association
• Michael Stolz in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Statistics at fcc-supporters.org
• Statistics at www.greuther-fuerth.de